Foot-scraper.



I. G. PROUTY. FOOT SGRAPER. APPLIOATION FILED FEB. 2a, 1905.

Patented June 8, 1909.

THEODORE (J. PROUTY, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO, WILGOX MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

FOOT-SCRAPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

v Patented June 8, 1909.

Application filed February 25, 1905. Serial No. 247,314.

. Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in l oot-acrapers, of which the fol owing is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to foot-scrapers, and

has for its object to provide a new and improved scraper which will besim le but eflicient in construction. I accoinp ish this ob- 'ect as illustrated in the drawings and as eroinafter described.

What I regard as new is set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings-Figure 1 is a plan view, illustrating one form of my improved scraper; Fig. 2 1s a similar view, showin a modification thereof; Fig. 3 is a vertica cross section on line 33 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a vertical cross section on line 4 -4 of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a vertical cross section, illustrating a further modification; and Fig. 6 is a plan View of the blank from which the scraper is made.

My improved scraper is formed from a sheet of metal, preferably steel, which is stamped out to form a blank shaped as shown in Fi 6. As therein. shown, at one end of the b ank is a projecting ear 7, and at the other end cars 89.

10 indicates a slot having rounded ends, which extends transversely of the blank and is placed intermediately thereof. The blanks may be stamped out of a single strip of metal, and as the width of the ear 7 is the same as the space between the ears 89 there is no substantial waste of 1naterial,tl1e only waste being the part out out to form the slot 10. The cars 78-9 are rovided with a suitable number of screw-ho cs 11, as shown. The scraper is made from the blank by folding it along a transverse line which extends 3, the line of the fold does not extend centrally through the slot 10,-but is nearer the right-hand edge 14 thereof, so that that edge of the slot, when the parts are folded, is higher than the left-hand edge 15 thereof.

ATENT OFFICE. f

The edge 14, therefore, constitutes the scraping edge, while the rear member 12 serves to reinforce the front member 13. It will be understood that inthis construction the foot is drawn in the direction shown in Fig. 3 in scra )ing. In Fig. 4 a construction is shown in w ich the line of the fold is nearer the edge 15, so that that edge becomes the scraping edge, while the member 13 serves as the forcing member. in Figs. 1 to 4 the 'front surface is convex. In

Fig. 5, however, I-have shown a construction.

in which the front surface of the scraper is concave,this being secured simply by bending the folded members in the opposite direction from that shown in Fig. 1. As shown in the drawings, the art of the blank which lies at the ends of tlie slot 10 forms, when folded, upwardly-projecting portions 16 which serve as stops to prevent the foot from sliding off the ends of the scra er.

While the best results are secured y curving the foldedmembers as illustrated, my invention'also includes a scraper in which the folded members are not bent into curved form; and, except where the curved form of scraper is particularly claimed, the claims are to be construed accordingly.

.That which I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,-

plate bent intermediately upon itself and rem In the construct ons shown curved about a substantially vertical axis, a

portion of the fold being cut away-between the side edges of the plate to form a scrapin edge, and attaching means formed integra with said plate.

THEODORE o. PROUT r.

' Witnesses:

. A. M. Scorn,

L. R. Snurson. 

